The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world's best-loved illustrators
Jean-Jacques Sempe (b.1932) is highly regarded for his acutely sensitive and playful observations on everyday life
This is the perfect book for fans of Sempe, known the world over for his New Yorker covers, and to introduce his work to a wider audience
His inimitable drawings and watercolours, accompanied by his perfectly judged captions, picture a world of thwarted lovers, dreamy musicians, mischievous children, aspiring artists and city
life. Sempe's laconic and fresh asides and commentaries are translated by Anthea Bell who helped bring Asterix the Gaul to the English-speaking world
A perfect gift for cartoon connoisseurs, Franco-philes and anyone with a sense of humour
作者簡介
Jean-Jacques Sempe is one of the world's most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children's-book character Nicholas, and author of a collection of
some 30 albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and
in Paris Match.
Anthea Bell was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W G Sebald's Austerlitz. Her many works of translation
from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by Rene Goscinny and Albert
Uderzo.
